If you are a cop and you kill someone, whether you are on duty or not, you have to answer a lot of questions. You have to fill out a lot of paperwork. I knew the review boards would begin on Monday and last most of the week. I would be asked over and over again the question. What were the circumstances which forced me to pull out my Colt and shoot Stefano Bryant three times in the chest? I would be grilled by both police officers and by civilians and they would make me work my way through the Martinez case, backwards and forwards, questioning every move I made in the process.
The only problem with that was it would be the part where Flannery, McNutty, and I went over to visit Danny Roberts. I would have to be creative in my answers to the various review committees on our need to kick in R
